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about two weeks ago when he doubled down and said you know what, let's do the big deal. let's do the $4 trillion plan. he sort of-- sort of came late to the game. he kind of endorsed the bowles simpson plan which he stl has never fully endorsed but the goals of it, he did endorse in the last couple of weeks so they didn't quite expect that, the republicans in that sense and then that's when they started to retreat from retreat on could up history of '95, think mitc certainly looks at that is bill clinton want to be a looks at 95 i more with was good republicans then. been good, possibly could for house the day he votes to get >> rose: boehner at that to newt >> tt's right. he was in leadership at the think he sees know, the figured it out won. republicans won. is the guy is ying to here and i different set. he was of a different mindset. >> hans, do you agree with this is the political take plac 2012, that presidentas sense of the resignation. >> well, it's not all resignation implies sort of and don't way to alter forward. i think what you have seen in the last weeks, t
about two weeks ago when he doubled down and said you know what, let's do the big deal. let's do the $4 trillion plan. he sort of-- sort of came late to the game. he kind of endorsed the bowles simpson plan which he stl has never fully endorsed but the goals of it, he did endorse in the last couple of weeks so they didn't quite expect that, the republicans in that sense and then that's when they started to retreat from retreat on could up history of '95, think mitc certainly looks at that is...
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the big stories. when i was a journalist starting out 30 years ago, part of your job was to stop people seeing your front pages until it was on thenewsstand. now the front page is you're trng to finish it at 8:00 in the evening so you can get it on to the t.v. screens. that's the way you're marketing yourself. it's a complete changehich i find it very, very hard to adapt to. in that pursuit of big-impact journalism, some newspapers really have reached a point where anything will go. absolutely anything. and the one term i thi this guy, paul mcmullen who goes on the television the will say, look, we all did it, none of us thought it was wrong and the people that taught me did it as well. they have to make an impact and they'll stop at nothing to do it. >> rose: this is the guy that talked to hugh grant when hugh grant was secretly recording him. >> that's right. >> rose: catherine, what is the damage t newscorp and what is the damage to rupert murdoch? >> well, again... i mean, as just said, you could
the big stories. when i was a journalist starting out 30 years ago, part of your job was to stop people seeing your front pages until it was on thenewsstand. now the front page is you're trng to finish it at 8:00 in the evening so you can get it on to the t.v. screens. that's the way you're marketing yourself. it's a complete changehich i find it very, very hard to adapt to. in that pursuit of big-impact journalism, some newspapers really have reached a point where anything will go. absolutely...
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but the other really big issue, of course, is that the u.k. has greece and ireland sitting on its doorsteps and that caused quite a psychological shock t just for politicians but voters too. >> rose: bill, wt dow make of the fact that eight out of 93 failed. >> and there are small banks in greece and spain. but you know, what it reflects, really, is the lack of capitol within your. >>o land itself or at lea a lack of capital balance. euroland actually has less debt to gdp than the united states. the problem is t balance. it's the south versus the north. and it's like comparing it to a rowboat with too many passengers on one side or the other. and it tips. what's required really is some type of rebalancing, some type of effort from a central bank le the ecb or some type of fiscal policy from what is known as the esff to basically get funds from one untry to the other. and of course the political ramifications and problems in doing that have been the problem to this day. >> the problems in euroland as john says may have actually helped the u.s.
but the other really big issue, of course, is that the u.k. has greece and ireland sitting on its doorsteps and that caused quite a psychological shock t just for politicians but voters too. >> rose: bill, wt dow make of the fact that eight out of 93 failed. >> and there are small banks in greece and spain. but you know, what it reflects, really, is the lack of capitol within your. >>o land itself or at lea a lack of capital balance. euroland actually has less debt to gdp than...
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. >> yes, she made a big point in the hearings this afternoon saying she hadn'tbeen to downing street while david cameron was prime minister and contrasted it with the fac she'd been there a l under gordon brown and tony blair and the reason she hasn't been to downing street is she doesn't have to. they see each other ithe country side in the little village and easier to meethere an gng to downing street and have it in the papers. >> the solution to bad journalism has been more journalism and government has been far and ay bystanders and i don't think the committee hearing did a lot to change that. i think the lines of inquiry will continue to advance will come from the guardian and new york times and will come from the wall street journal and probably not from the mps of parliament. >> charlie: but including the wall street journal. >> wall street journal i thought was hilarious the other day saying there's an editorial saying you're all doing overkill there's so much and all hard-hitting. you have a $40 billion company to close a 168-year-old newspaper and ten people arrested, a pie
. >> yes, she made a big point in the hearings this afternoon saying she hadn'tbeen to downing street while david cameron was prime minister and contrasted it with the fac she'd been there a l under gordon brown and tony blair and the reason she hasn't been to downing street is she doesn't have to. they see each other ithe country side in the little village and easier to meethere an gng to downing street and have it in the papers. >> the solution to bad journalism has been more...
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there's no big mechanism, no easy mechanism for ousting him. so andy has e advantage of the holiday. all of this will have time to cooldown. ed milleband, he's right, he's made good progress, but the polls show that although there's been a kind of windy-danging to the tories, the labor has not picked up. the lib-dems, doing badly until now, have gained a little bit. people are not convinced by milleband. i think the relations between the parties remain pretty much unchanged, but ihink these problems have not gone away for cameron, they've just gone io the slightly longer grass, because the police now have until the fall to decide, for example, whether to lay charges. sohat could happen is that all of this could come back with a vengeance around the time of the annual party conferences. >> let's just break this into parts, charlie. the first , david cameron's short-term problem. and that is this question that his error of judgment in hiring mr. coulson. now, until this affair really broke, you could argue that david cameron led the strongest gov
there's no big mechanism, no easy mechanism for ousting him. so andy has e advantage of the holiday. all of this will have time to cooldown. ed milleband, he's right, he's made good progress, but the polls show that although there's been a kind of windy-danging to the tories, the labor has not picked up. the lib-dems, doing badly until now, have gained a little bit. people are not convinced by milleband. i think the relations between the parties remain pretty much unchanged, but ihink these...
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i know the big picture; you use the government to promote licies. what are the policies to get people to demand more products so that companies can make more products and hire more people d e capit to build more factories? >> there are four things: you invest in infrastructure or other things that the public sector -- that's a kind of stimulous program. >> that's kind of a stim you las and creation of demand, different sides of the same coin. you put more money -- you give people -- you give employees or employers tax relief that puts more money in their pocket so that they spend more. you provide support to parts of the economy that we obvious laying people off on a huge scale that they don't wanto lay off because they have important work to do. and that's why support for state and lol governments is so important. you providenemployment insurance and support for workers who have lost their jobs and who would otherwise set off a spiral by cutting their spending. and you do everything that you can to promote t sale of american products to foreign con
i know the big picture; you use the government to promote licies. what are the policies to get people to demand more products so that companies can make more products and hire more people d e capit to build more factories? >> there are four things: you invest in infrastructure or other things that the public sector -- that's a kind of stimulous program. >> that's kind of a stim you las and creation of demand, different sides of the same coin. you put more money -- you give people --...
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we took a big step last friday. we recognized the t.n.c., the opposition group, as provisional... >> rose: and freed up billions of dollars. >> we're working through that through, as a legitimate vernment of libya. it'snteresting. this is... this has gone, i think, ptty wel fnkly we set out t try to protect citizens and civilians so 700,000 citizens in a wn in eastern libya on the coast called benghazi that was being threatened by qaddafi. >> the core of the resistance movement at the time. >> exactly. there was a history collective punishment. and the president decided that we couldct. that the contions were there for us to act effectively militaryly. we could do it with legitimacy, a u.n. resolution and the support of nay toshgs the arab league. we could do it with a real support from the t arabs, not just rhetoril support. we had a good division of labor that we could put in place that we would do the initial work that we could do uniquely and the others would follow on to carry on the other work, the ongoing wor
we took a big step last friday. we recognized the t.n.c., the opposition group, as provisional... >> rose: and freed up billions of dollars. >> we're working through that through, as a legitimate vernment of libya. it'snteresting. this is... this has gone, i think, ptty wel fnkly we set out t try to protect citizens and civilians so 700,000 citizens in a wn in eastern libya on the coast called benghazi that was being threatened by qaddafi. >> the core of the resistance...